skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
More than sexism it is statusism.

I could understand secretaries instantaneously loosing respect if they see their bosses typing with one finger.

It happened to me with one operator of a lathe when he discovered I had no idea or cared how to program it because I was "engineer"(I had other work to do). I had to study the thing on a weekend for regaining the respect from those people on my team.

Imagine being in the war and your life depends on a person(e.g a sergeant) and the only thing you know about this person is that he is incompetent on what you know to do well... not good.
link is dead at the moment. I've worked with them and considering they thought it was an good idea to pitch a c# developer for a c position, I'd rather they didn't have a programmer geek category.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_case#Headings_and_public...
Thanks a lot. For me these are stumble blocks (trained to pay attention to caps for too long) and carry meaning, so .. I tried to find a pattern. And failed.
Speaking as a current kindergarten teacher it's as.intellectually stimulating as watching paint dry. Nice and rewarding helping and educating kids but all I can say is thank fuck for the internet and naptime. And being a nurse is not a “fun” job. Working in fashion or the arts is one of those things where most of the compensation doesn't come in monetary form but neither healthcare nor education are fun like that.
Building Go web applications with a clean architecture
Screams for a quotation of Terry Pratchet's 'multiple exclamation marks' statement to me..
> senior managment who told the company lawyers to take action

There's lawyers that "take action". Then there's lawyers who advise. Senior management gets advice from a few sources and then makes a decision. If that decision involves lawsuits, patents or any other type of legal action you can be sure the idea originated with lawyers.
Jesus christ I can't wait til there is a Y16 telco network
Jumping, mouselook, crosshairs? That does not sound like Doom to me. Give http://www.chocolate-doom.org/ a try, that engine is faithful.
I was fairly sure they call it coffee, which isn't a particularly British word anyway, as it comes from Arabic, via Turkish and Italian.
> I think women have more attractive choices

Possibly, but what makes engineering different from say law? My engineering class was 28% female, and the engineering team I worked on after graduating was 5% female. My law school class was 45% female, and my law firm starting class is about 45% female as well.

I can't think of a principled way to distinguish law from engineering in terms of gender attractiveness, other than the culture of the respective fields. I don't think it's aptitude. The male-female gap on the SAT Math is about the same as the male-female gap on the LSAT. I don't think it's attractiveness. Law isn't any more fun than engineering. In your words: "you sit in front of a screen al day and wreck your brain." It's analytical, detail work, not unlike debugging code. Yet, women seem to self select into at a relatively similar rate to men.

I'll also note: women make up the majority of accountants and auditors and 45% of accountants at accounting firms. Talk about boring detail oriented jobs!
Now _that's_ helpful (although it boils down to 'yeah, do whatever you like' as well, just like the other commenters pointed out already, albeit with a little more background information)
Site seems to be down. Probably using female servers.
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> a modern iOS Newsstand publication for geeks like us that’s loosely about technology, but also gives tech writers a venue to explore other topics that like-minded geeks might find interesting.

Maybe there's a market for magazine type media. It seems so backwards and nostalgic. Print imposed restrictions on size, format, timelyness, access, single voice (no comments), among others. The description of "The Magazine" sounds like what HN or Reddit already is.

Also something so pretentious to call itself "The Magazine" is gonna be filled with poseur hacks. Wired already fills that role.
"Admittedly not in a web browser though."

HTML5 gives you WebGL support, which allows you to compile and run GLSL shaders from JavaScript. For something that is heavily shader-oriented like this, it might be possible in the browser.
on my (now quite old) 13" macbook pro, I have to dial down the font size on my terminal to fit enough info on the screen.

I'd got used to Monaco, but this makes everything so much clearer. I've been using it since this article came up, not yet been tempted to switch back.
It is easy to think of this from today as something like spotify or usenet, but in many ways it does not sound so far from MTV (1981) with PDC[0] and a PDC tape recoder.

He appears to describe a system of music streams which could be subscribed to (cable TV channels, streaming a winamp playlist), with an notification system that would allow a machine to tape a song (sort of like RSS/ the recording codes on VCRs[0].. this appears to be where the phone line comes in AFAICT; although that shouldn't have been necessary). I don't think he is describing anything that would use a computer on the client side, or have any 'on-demand' feature.

0. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programme_Delivery_Control
d'You give brutal doom a try yet? It's a little violent but amazing and fast.
http://www.moddb.com/mods/brutal-doom
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EI3zJJW4m9g&feature=relmf...
I'd like to see a course that teaches new languages by first teaching me how to read existing code before asking me to write a single program.
Fuc*ing genius.
This might be off-topic but: Would a single operating system been a more productive use of developer time? ( I'm looking at this from the standpoint of someone whos building embedded systems upon open source )
> pedantic, overzealous admin

nailed it.
"If you put a problem in front of him, he knows in his mind that given enough time, resources and control he can solve the problem.

Which is the exact detail of the Romney Tax Plan that makes all the numbers add up."

This right here is pretty much the definition of faith based economics. Personally, I prefer numbers to add up based on some form of counting, but that's just me.
I don't think it says anything specific about the genre. The same applies to platformers (Super Mario Bros), and most other genres.
> I thought El Reg did that only for Yahoo! or other silly exclamation-mark-including brands

I confess I never noticed the contexts, only that they existed. They're common enough that I suspect there's a macro at the ready in the El Reg editing apps: text =~ s/(\w+)/$1!/g

> Not that I read it much, of late ...

Same here -- the stylistic memes begin to wear on one.
Ask HN: What hosting do you use for personal projects?
This was asked about 3 years ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1005067

What is everyone using these days? (Of particular interest to me would be hosting with free usage tiers)
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Engineering departments have been taking concerted efforts to recruit women into the faculties for years, with less effect. I assume some technology companies have too.

I'm not sure how to quantify the efforts put in by different fields.
Amen! Thank you for highlighting this. I've been following threads such as these on HN - I'm surprised and saddened at the level of sexist (sometimes even misogynistic) comments they seem to procure. To me, the overall weight of comments show an undue amount of skepticism. They'll fastidiously pick apart the research or article semantics, and keenly pull out standard diversionary or derailing tactics. Strange considering we're far from living in a meritocratic society (as illustrated by studies such as these: http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/unofficial-prognosis/201...). On the upside, I've created a program to log everyone who flaunts sexist comments on HN and elsewhere - they will never do business with me. All the best!
They should just make a sister site and throw these types of questions on there. Call it StackDebate or something.
That's a great article. The takeaway is right here:

"Whenever the subject of women in science comes up, there are people fiercely committed to the idea that sexism does not exist. They will point to everything and anything else to explain differences while becoming angry and condescending if you even suggest that discrimination could be a factor. But these people are wrong."

boom headshot.
Microsoft to make smartphones, tablets and PCs in company-saving strategy shift
Oh, nice, thanks!
German Start-up MyTaxi is coming to DC
>Talking with people is better for the soul, and women are smart enough to realize that.

Yes. This is very true, after I finished my degree I couldn't stand the thought of staring at code & hunting for bugs for the rest of my life.

I took a while to assess the tech industry, consider all of the jobs available before taking the plunge into security & support.

I miss creating things & I'm probably on half the salary I could be, but on a day to day basis I love it. I learn from a great team, get to solve problems & get awesome feedback from helping people & fixing issues.

I think most women are still waiting for the reasons why they should join the tech industry. What's in it for me, why will my life be better because of it? No one is providing answers, so only those that go looking will find them.

All these articles that say 'more women should be in tech because that's better' - well, why is that? They normally cite 'balanced departments are more profitable' but still, for the individual - why? It never goes any further.

I think there needs to be compelling reasons. What do we bring, where can we excel? We aren't going to work in an industry because people say we should. We're going to look for happiness in a profession first and foremost.
Why Do We Need A Brain?
This is absolutely fantastic of you, guys to share an app like that. Most hardware makers cant make self-serving software like that, and you rock! I am sending the link to all of my engineering friends.
Steam DRM locks users out of games traded through Steam
Let's weave narratives!
I doubt it, probably I'll check at skeptics.stackexchange.com.
Ha, what about history.stackexchange.com. IT History at its best...
Google App Engine. From Personal Sites to Projects like inqzin.com, everything hosted on App Engine. Its free and pretty reliable.
Agreed. If you want to read some well-written Python, take a look at the Flask source code. It is the embodiment of Pythonic.
Suggestion: combine with another little experiment… http://www.bulletproofexec.com/bulletproof-sex/

Should make your desperation (& success) even better.
He was nearly special ambassador to the West on trade, culture and tourism for Czechoslovakia under Havel, but the idea was stomped on by US secretary of state James Baker for Zappa insulting his wife. http://www.theroc.org/roc-mag/textarch/roc-08/roc0816b.htm
FreeBSD has a strict rule that each sentence should always begin a new line. The reason isn't so much to simplify editing (not relevant with modern editors) or to make diffs more compact (size hardly matters); rather, the biggest reason is to make "svn blame" work better.
Diffs are only half the picture. Is git able to correctly merge two branches which each have single-word edits to a long-line sentence? I'm pretty sure it's not. I think the article is correctly arguing that we should continue to bend over backwards to accommodate 2012 technology.
Conkeror: Web Browsing the Emacs Way
Your link was broken, I found it here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Don%27t_use_line_brea...
Could you elaborate a bit on your point 1/3? How come the little interest in this subject? Even though it contains no relativistic effects it would seem to have some importance in filling out the complete 'cube' of theories?
Heroku's blog post (which I read) said:

> notice will be provided to all beta users prior to GA release

The only notice I received was in the email newsletter (which I didn't read). It seems reasonable to expect a specific notice based on the language in the blog post.
Agreed. For every foo.stackexchange.com there is already a meta.foo.stackexchange.com and a chat.foo.stackexchange.com. Why not add idle.foo.stackexchange.com to the mix?
> Have you noticed how Github helpfully shows which words have changed inside a line when looking at diffs?

GitHub's web UI only does a line diff. Which is not particularly helpful when you change a word or two in a six sentence paragraph. It's possible to do a word diff locally of course: `git diff --word-diff` but that's not the general use case for a code host, right now most code is line oriented and the UI suits it well. That is one of the reasons that the article advocates formatting thoughts with newlines, good portability. These input texts are closer to code than prose, so why format it like it was? Splitting thoughts into units digestible by your coding environment has the huge benefit of working with individual thoughts instead of individual paragraphs.
Tickets are most definitely openable by all, but yes, it is true that the link to open a new ticket is a little buried within the new help site.

As for current invoices amount, the old dashboard used to show you your current usage. I'm not sure when this got lost, but the new dashboard doesn't have it.

I can pretty much guarantee that Heroku are fully aware of both of these problems and acting on them…
I was just listening to the episode of Mostly Lazy where Phil Hagelberg is interviewed [1]. It's filled with great thoughts and he mentioned that he's been using this browser since 2006, so I figured I'd give it a shot. It's got a learning curve, but so far it seems worth it.

[1] http://mostlylazy.com/2012/09/21/episode-8-phil-hagelberg-em...
I too started with a linux in the late 90's but moved to Free/OpenBSD by 2000 as IMO the BSD community had got it's shit together and the Linux community had turned in to a shambles optimised by slashdot style commenting everywhere.

By that point the BSDs supported most common hardware and didn't suffer from fire and forget IDE drivers which corrupted my Linux servers at least once per year. Although they were slower they just seemed to work. Combine that with a rational layout of /etc /usr/local/etc and all the other places that UNIX's squirrel away files and BSD just stuck for me. I haven't looked back as far as servers go.

The desktop is another kettle of fish though. Ubuntu is still far better than PCBSD but both are still lightyears away from the polish that windows/mac desktops have.
> Would a single operating system been a more productive use of developer time?

Yes, but a runner-up would be operating systems that can use each other's code, as is often the case with *nix-like operating systems. Given the natural tendency to fork operating systems, at least there's a way to cross-port code that works in most cases.

Oh -- I just realized you're asking this from an individual perspective. The answer is still yes -- you're better off focusing your attention on one OS. If you don't, you'll be competing with people who do, and they'll be more productive.
Web browsers do not have diversions, badly designed web sites do. The articles in The Magazine are simple HTML and a clean CSS. If you go to the web site and read the foreword, it looks exactly like the app.

The only reason I can imagine, and mind you it is a BIG reason, to make The Magazine an app is the business model.
> Why doesn't someone launch a site for such questions?

Occasionally they do. But they take a lot of effort to moderate and generate negligible ad revenue, so they usually do not last long.
I'll start by saying that I approve of security testing networks and the telco industry could do with more of it. I agree that security can be lax sometimes.

Sure, Telco SS7 networks and the equipment within them are just like any other in that there can be bugs that cause it to go down.

However, there are much higher barriers for entry to get an SS7 network link (c.f. a connection to the internet) and you're not going to keep it for very long if all you're doing is sending out SS7 messages crashing HLRs left, right and center.

I'm assuming that the packet he's talking about is a fuzzing attack and only affects a particular vendor's HLR and may have even been fixed by now. So if everyone in the world used the same vendor, all used the same software version and you had unfettered access to all of them, then yes, you could crash all of the HLRs in the world.

And really?... "World's HLR". Well I'm glad someone is nice enough to host a HLR for the world. And apparently crashing the "World's HLR" will stop one country's communication. Oh noes! Which one is it?! I hope it's not mine! And I'd be interested to see how crashing a HLR stops my landline and my internet connection from functioning.
Not exactly what you are looking for, but there are a few archives which try to save the deleted questions from StackOverflow (I don't know about the other SE sites). E.g. http://stackoverflow.hewgill.com/
What do you think about Photo Reveal - the iOS app that makes your secrets safe
There is a new app on iOS App Store - Photo Reveal. It will let you encrypt with AES 256 bit and hide text messages and audio messages in images. Do you think that is a life saver for those that have mistresses or secret relations? Or is it a good app to store passwords and other sensitive data in places that no one will search for? I'm curious about your opinions. You can find the app here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/photo-reveal/id561406176?mt=8
The email was a newsletter which contained many announcements unrelated to the impending charges. I felt they should have made the notice much more prominent and so I'm alerting other Heroku customers to be more vigilant.
The argument is often made that understanding a language comes more quickly by writing and executing small examples than by reading examples.
Show HN: Skimred.com - Skimfeed for Reddit
I think Jeff Bezos (Amazon CEO) said once: "The best customer service is no customer service".

Shameless Plug: There are much more cloud services out there these days. It's not just two. Have a look at the PHP ones here: http://blog.fortrabbit.com/comparing-cloud-hosting-platforms...
Is this something you'd use? Feedback please!
I found the incredibly thin page unreadable (had to use Clearly). One sentence per line makes sense for the "source" that you edit, but use something like Latex or Markdown so that we don't have to read it in that form.
Peer effect.
Bandwagon effect.
IBM/Redhat.
web-hosting companies.
Oracle.
Ubuntu.
I posted this a while ago asking a similar question http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4500567

I considered it micro-consulting. The responses listed http://anyfu.com and http://clarity.fm
Yes, and (arrgghh) too late to edit the original.

Thanks.
Diff and merge algorithms are line-oriented. If a whole paragraph is on one line, and I edit one word, then the diff consists of the whole paragraph, which is bad. Some tools are able to do word-by-word diffs, as mentioned below. But none are able to merge correctly in the scenario where two branches have each edited one word in the same line.

I rarely edit Wikipedia so I don't know what its diff algorithm does. But I'm pretty sure it doesn't do any merging in any scenario, so that partly explains why one clause per line would not help there. That's quite different from Sphinx and TeX, which are usually stored in merge-capable version control. I think all of Wikipedia's justifications are specific to the case of editing in a text-box on the web and without diff/merge algorithms.

> if someone wants to reassemble individual sentences into paragraphs, as anyone knows who has tried to reassemble lines into paragraphs (as with an e-mail in its delivered form), it's nearly impossible to get right.

The post proposes a single line-break after each clause or sentence, and then a double line-break after each paragraph. TeX and Sphinx do the right thing in those cases.
Enhance Rails Models
Parachute use to prevent death and major trauma due to gravitational challenge
Stick this in your app and you can call the debugger however you wish by customizing the function name, and it will only throw in debugger mode (in case you forget it):

from flask import current_app

def asdf():
assert current_app.debug == False, "You just called debug!"
http://freemoviesite24.com/2012/09/raaz-3-2012-bluray-free-d...
Meet Ping.it - a simplest, fastest link sharing platform
Ask HN: What are the best resources to read about increasing SaaS revenue? 
I am looking to become an expert on generating SaaS revenue.

I recently found Patrick McKenzie's (patio11's) blog at www.kalzumeus.com/blog, and it has really made me realize that this is something I am passionate about.

Are there any other amazing resources that HN would recommend for learning to get the most out of an SaaS model...or any other SaaS materials that they would recommend?

Thanks!
The equations you end up with are called the Schrodinger-Newton equations [1]. These are the same as Schrodinger's equation, but with an extra term that couples the wavefunction to a global gravitational field via its mass.

I'm not an expert, but possible reasons for the relative lack of interest in these equations include:

1. It doesn't produce many interesting predictions (possible exception: it might be useful for explaining how gravitational effects can induce wavefunction collapse, but this appears to be highly speculative.)

2. There isn't a natural domain of applicability. For example, combining 1/2 (gravity and relativity) has a natural applicability to things that are heavy and move fast (i.e. stars, galaxies, the universe). Combining 2/3 (relativity and quantum mechanics) applies to things that are small and move fast (electrons and other fundamental particles). The domain of applicability of 1/3 would be things that are small and heavy, but move slowly. I can't think of any examples of things that fit the bill (note that 1/2/3 applies to things that are small, heavy and move quickly, i.e. black holes).

When I say "move quickly" here I don't necessarily mean that the object you're modelling must be moving quickly - just that there are speeds in the problem that are appreciable fractions of the speed of light.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schr%C3%B6dinger%E2%80%93Newton...
If you look closely at what they are proposing, the new bills and the new budgets almost always go into "offensive cyber capabilities" not defensive ones. So while they keep the fearmongering about cyber attacks, all they are doing is building better weapons to attack others themselves, and has nothing to do with protection, which also creates a loop where if the US does get attack because the networks are not protected, they get to demand for even more funding, and continue the cycle.
Any opinions about Flask vs Bottle?
Joey from friends says "cwoffee", perhaps that's what they mean...
This was very detailed and useful, thanks. I ll be looking more into selenium, I knew of its existance, but I never looked deeper into that.
The Road to the World's Toughest Math Contest (Video)
On sexism in the tech industry - rebuttal
Valve's co-founder Gabe Newell accuses Apple for the platform-enclosure trend
I would say that the RNG problem is EP in that each data item can be processed completely in parallel with the others. The fact that there is a memory bottleneck doesn't really say anything about the nature of the problem but rather the hardware its running on.
I thought people understood that language and particularly English is a moving target. As soon as it's codified another wave of influence injects itself.

What is wonderful is the robustness of the English language, speakers and listeners. In London there are more differences between south and north London speakers then there are between me, a north Londoner and an American.